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072 THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 1942

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CITY'S DEFICIT TURNS UP AS NEAT SURPLUS

‘Maybe It's Magic,” Is View As Officials Eye Possible $700.000 Balance.

Br RICHARD LEWIS City Halls wizards of high finance today pulled $274000 out of C 1941 budget cashbox which was definitely empty the last time they showed it around to the pubic. Not only was empty: The wizards told the County Tax AdJustment Board last fall there would be a deficit of $150,000 or more which had to be made up in higher taxes this yea) The wizards explained their alchemy in transforming the deficit mto the $274.000 balance with some

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this not all Like the rope trick of the Hindus, = more to it. 12 months ago, the City was throes of a huge financial: he—the result of some wizwhich produced the illusion a 21.000.000 deficit. The million turned out to be a bookkeeping mirage, evoked bv an occult mistake in the office of City Controller James E. Deery.

$700.000 Surplus Possible

now appears on the basis of | the magic balance and a higher 1942 tax rate, that the wizards will have! nearly $700.000 in the cash box at! the end of this year. The full scope of the magic can! be revealed in the fact that the! $700,000 is in addition to the $8,000,- | 000 appropriated this year to finance municipal services. Approximately 8 cents was included in the record 1942 tax rate of $1.43—17 cents above the 1941 rate— | to pay off the deficit which the! wizards already have succeeded in liquidating.

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Th would raise about $£423.000 Add to that the $274000 and the T0000 becomes clearly visible. What will be done with that Al nt the wizards won't say. They ciaim they don't know, vet. However, they are pleased about and some of them have admitted they made a mistake last fall when told Chamber of Commerce tax experts and the Tax Adjustment Board that it was next to, impossible to make up the deficit out of savings,

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Tax Experts Were Right

The tax experts said the wizards could do it and today the experts were astonished to {ind they had been so right. The wizards did it, without even finding the philosophers stone or the magic lamp. And today there is the same kind | of wonderment in civic financial circles that appears over the faces of an audience at a magic show when the magician takes the white rabbits out of the hat. The audience always wonders what the magician is going to do with the rabbits after he has made them appear. That's what the experts and lookers-on are wondering about the 2700.000.

URGES COMMON MONEY UNIT WASHINGTON, Jan. 22 (U. P). —Secretary of Treasury Hemry| Morgenthau Jr. today said that the Treasury hopes that the American republics and Canada will agree, upon 8 common unit of currency tg be used in settling export trade

in accounts. Any agreement reached

by the American republics might be extended to all countries ‘igi

the Axis, Mr. Morgenthau said.

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Likes Bikes

Basso Ezio Pinza, Former 6-Day Rider, Sees a Comeback.

EZIO PINZA, the famous basso singer, arrived in Indianapolis by train today, convinced that the bicycle is coming back “I don't see why they shouldn't, said Mr. Pinza. “Thevie making 73.000 extra this year.” And Mr Knows a thing or twe bicycles. He used to pedal them in six-day races in Italy, but he

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Etio Pinza . . . he bortowed a wheel.

didn't do so well and so he took up singing, at which he's done very well. So well, in fact, that he's been employed as the leading basso by the Metropolitan Opera Co. for the past several years, finding time now and then to give a recital, » THAT WAS WHAT he was in town {or today. Hes to sing with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra tomorrow afternoon and Saturday night at the Murat A man with ideas. Mr also has a solution to no mile race next vesr.

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“People like racing of any kind, |

and if they cant have automobiles, theyll probably race bicycles” said the basso. “But I wouldn't go back to racing bicycles, because I get enough racing catching trains. I'll go back to using them, though, for short errands and pleasure.”

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straddies a bike loaned by a boy | named Paul, who in his excite- |

ment was unable to give his last name. He was concerned that Mr. Pinza might be too heavy for the vehicle. The basso stands 6-foot-2 and he packs a lot of singing muscle.

2 DIE UNDER LIME FALL JERSEY CITY, N. J. Jan. 22 (U. P.) —Two men were killed and two seriously mnjured today when a 2500-ton pile of dehvdrated lime fell on them while they were working as dynamite blasters at the Natural Products Refining Co.

Pinza is a man who | about |

TORTURE ENDS FOR 7 FORCED DOWN AT SEA

Albatross With Beady Eve| Stares at Thirst-Crazed

Men in Broken Plane. By NAT A. BARROWS

{ BALBOA, Canal Zone, Jan 22.) 1 —The drama of how seven Navy | men survived more than a week of | torture. in a disabled patrol plane] far out at sea has been revealed| by the survivors. It is a story of daily prayer, fran-| tic relays at setting up a make-| ship radio set, sips of water once! ‘daily and fear that their ie would sink any minute under them. Forced down by engine trouble, | Lieut. William T. Sutherland, jun-, jor grade, of Normal, Ill, the pilot, | and his six men finally were able 'to send out an SO S which was | almost immediately by a] Federal monitor station in Pennsvivania—after five and a half days of sleepless hardship few men have | survived. | Sitting in the 15th Naval Head- | quarters here, thev looked fit and; ready for another patrol despite! their average loss of weight of 12 pounds. |

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{ | With Lieut. Sutherland were En- | sign William J. Lahodney, a re- This artist's conception show a Watertown, aviation ma-

radioman, of J. W. Miller,

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enemy-held Binanga Bay in the Philippines under eover of night, has been commended by the Naval Department.

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U. 8S. motor torpedo boat loosing the death blast against a 5000-ton J

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WAY IS PAVED FOR ADDING TO PACIFIC FORCES

Defenses of Hawaii and Coast Stronger Than Before Japs Struck.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 22 (U. P.).—A high Governe ment official said today that vast emergency military steps, invoked immediately after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, have resulted in strengthening of our entire West Coast defenses and la waii to unprecedented levels, and have paved the way for reinforcements in the Southe west Pacific.

A huge operation, involving the movement within the continental

apanese vessel after rocketing into

For this daring exploit Lieut. John D, Bulkeley of Long Island City, N. Y,,

chinist’'s mate, of Ashland, Ky.; Harold C. Martin, seaman. of Lynchburg, Va.: W. B. Valyou, radioman., of Burlington, Vt. andi Joan P, Carlson, radioman, of) | Olympia, Wash. | When a rescue plane sighted] them and directed a surface ship to them, they all joined hands topside on the tossing, pitching wings and Helps offered prayers of thanksgiving. | Then, secure in the knowledge that | their torture would soon be over, they scrambled waist-deep in the! Secretary's Purse. half-sunken cabin and broke out] cans of fruit. An alleged purse thief who in-| “If it nadn't been for Weiss and vaded the very stronghold of law in yao. ny Paton: re oan! Indiana—the office of Chief Justice ve here today,” related Lieut. Suth-|{ Shim. erland. “All mv men did a splen- | Curtis G. Shake of the State Sudid job. Thev obeved orders cheer- Prome Court—was ~aptured today m fully ana willingly despite the a chase in which the chief Justice | hardships. But the two radiomen was among the pursuers. worked without Sleep to improvise The “chasee” a 40-year-old man & radio set from broken parts ot our : | water-soaked apparatus and to rig took the purse of Miss Charlene up a generator. It took five and a Heard, secretary to the Chief Jus(Continued on Page Four) {tice, out of a drawer in her desk.!

Miss Heard, taking dictation in an! AUTO KILLS WOMAN adjoining room at the time, heard!

a bang on her desk, rushed out to! investigate. Year's 11th Traffic Death’ ‘down from the second floor of the At 82nd and College. goin from!

Miss Leona Bennett, 33, today; Gt him!" cried Chief Justice

| Shake. Was listed as the 1ith traffic fa- o.oo House employees and news- | {tality of 1942 in Marion County.

J paper reporters joined In pursuit She was struck by an auto as of the man down the stairs. then | she slighted from a bus at College out the north entrance of the buildAve. and 82nd St, outside the City ing. limits. Miss Bennett was an employee in the home of Mrs. Blanche! Robinson, 8200 Spring Mill Road.’ Mrs. Robinson, waiting for Miss Bennett in a parked auto, wit-

JUSTICE SHAKE | JOINS IN CHASE

Capture Fugitive

Suspected of Stealing

Reporters Join Chase |

She grabbed the man. He shoved her and ran out. “Stop him!” she cried as the man started toward the stairway leading

A block west of the State House. a man in a parking lot heeded the! lery “Stop him!” As he grappled . with the fugitive, Patrolman Fred | nessed the accident. Starks came up. arrested the susMrs. Rosemary Smith, 21, of pect. Chief Justice Shake was right Route 6, Box 146-S, drove the auto pening the policeman.

which figured in the accident. | The suspect said he was Johd

‘Gives Chicago Address

| Volko of Chicago.

Miss Heard's purse, containing !

Army Under 'Ace’ General Smashes at Luzon Forces

By HARRISON SALISBURY

United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Jan. 22 .(U. P.).—The War Department revealed today that Japan has thrown her entire 14th army, aided by additional | forces and a stream of heavy reinforcements, into a ferocious attack de{signed to Blast Gen. Douglas MacArthur from his strong lines in Bataan | Province. The Japanese forces. estimated at posibly 200,000 to 300,000 men. are commanded by a crack Japanese]

JAPAN THRUSTS

NEAR AUSTRALIA

Fleet Near New Britain; British Planes Smash “Foe in Malaya.

By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign Editor

military figure. Lieut. Gen. Masa- | haru Homa. a bluff, robust general, who is well known both to American and English Army circles. The huge Japanese forces, said the War Department, are hurling themselves in unrelenting attacks directed particularly against the left

The Japanese were revealed io be pouring cuantities of new troops onto Luzon, landing their fresh

miles to the north which was the scene of the original major Jap-| lanese landing effort on the island. | and center sectors of Gen. Mac-| These forces, it appeared, are Arthur's lines. [rushing up to the front and chargThe communique did not state ing into action against the small how well the heavily outnumbered body of tired troops which have American and Filipino forces are!been holding off constant Japanese withstanding the hammering of the |attacks for 47 days. Tokyo forces, but it seemed evident] Presumably the large forces being that the crisis of Gen. MacArthur's| landed on Subic Bay: are striking

stand in Bataan may be at hand. ! (Continued on Page Four)

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War Moves Today

By LOUIS F. KEEMLE United Press War Analyst The German retreat from Moscow has developed into one of the great single victories of the war for Russia. The Germans, their winter line cracked at Mozhaisk. were fighting desperately today at or

Japanese air and naval forces thrust at the strategic island of

forces on Subic Bay, just north ot {NeW Boia portieant o gn Bataan and on Lingayen Gulf 100 '°¢aV as Allled forces fougnt in-

Burma. and the Philippines. i A fieet of 11 Japanese ships, including warships, was reported in| operation off the Rabaul sector of New Britain and communications| with the British base ceased after another heavy bombing attack, in-| dicating that the defense forces had evacuated. “Never before in history has Aus- | tralia faced such a serious predica-| ment,” War Minister F. M. Forde | declared as the nation mobilized its resources for an expected battle on the home front.

Peril Allies’ Supplies But the Japanese thrust, in which | three aircraft carriers were said to be participating, also was aimed at conirol of the Allied sea routes north of Australia—vital routes for American and other supplies to the

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beyond Borodino, scene of Nupoleon's triumph in 1812. The Germans cannot vet be said to have been routed and presumably will eventually make a firm! stand, even 1f they have to fall back to Smolensk, on the upper | reaches of the Dnieper, which Hitler already has abandoned as his | field headquarters. An important point in appraising the Mozhaisk- | Borodino action is that it dispels y nn

definitely the German-created ficOn the War

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tion that their armies are making an orderly, planned retreat to prepared positions, It is now obvious that they had

East Indies and Singapore—and at a foothold {for invasion of New Guinea, . a With Rabaul as a base, Japanese airplanes and warships might be| in a position to battle for domi-| nance of the entire island north of | Australia and cut off Allied sup-| plies, The Japanese, however, have] failed to eliminate the threat to! their flank provided by |

United States of some 600,000 troops, was carried out with a minimum of confusion and delay, the official

|said. West Coast Defenses Lagged

| | Large numbers of Army planes ‘and men were moved quickly inte (their stations on the West Coast, from California to Alaska, to meet {the threat when it appeared that Hawaii had been endangered and {damaged more than actually proved {to be the case, he said. This official said that bombers were flown and pursuit craft were a" tmmedtately to. Hawaii, (with the result that it is now far jstronger than before the surprise | raid. At the same time, this source said, steps were being taken to send reinforcements into the southweste ern Pacific. In describing the “inside picture” of how our Army went into action immediately after the initial Jape anese attack, he said that first re« ports, fortunately exaggeraved, had made it appear that Hawaii was terribly crippled with the result that the entire West Coast would have been left stripped of the proe {tection of that outlying defense 'bastion.

| Bombers Plugged Leak

He explained that the American

’ | defense program had been based on tensified enemy drives in Malaya, prog

|veliance on the strength of Hawail,

and that West Coast detenses, themselves, had lagged during the past year and a half. He said that the emergency ree vealed the flexibility of air defense, It looked he said, as if we had lost control of the seas for the time being. To meet this situation, the Army threw in its big two and four-engine bombers to plug the defense leak in the West, he cone tinued. He said that our production had been coming up steadily in aircraft, and we fortunately have sufficient bombers and pursuit ships to meet the emergency,

Job Termed Miraculous

The big job at the outset, he cone tinued, was to build up immediately West Coast anti-aircraft and intere ceptor defenses. Huge numbers of men and planes were moved to the coast during the operations. He said he had been told by a prominent railroad president that the job of moving about 600,000 troops in a few weeks was “miracue lous.” It was facilitated, he exe plained, oy advance preparations a year and a half ago for emere gency storage yards in ports of eme

barkation. Thus, the United States

{ Was ready for the jecb at the outset

American | (Continued on Page Four) tof the war instead of being obliged

1. Watt Pugh, Rent Manager

At Security

I. Watt Pugh, manager of the

‘rental department of the Security,

Trust Co. and past president of the Apartment owners’ Association, died vesterday in Laredo, Tex. Ill for several months, he had gone to | Texas with his wife to improve his { health. Mr. Hugh was a pioneer in the | apartment house management field here. He had a thorough knowledge

|of the City, its growth and development in which he took an active, part, He was a director of the!

Apartment Owners’ Association at the time of his death. One of his first jobs was with the old Indianapolis Press years ago. He later went with the Marion Trust Co. of Indianapolis and for more than 25 years had been in the

of the Se»unity Trust Co. He had

ment several years. ES Sl ra al

Trust Co., Dies

The son of Isaac Clark Pugh and Onner M. Pugh, pioneer settlers in ‘Marion County, Mr. Pugh was born on a farm which now is a part of Speedway City and the 500-mile ‘race track there. He attended the /public schools here and Shortridge | High School. He was a member of the Indianapolis Real Estate Board and in his youth took an active part in all types of sports. He was, at that ‘time, a tennis player and amateur boxer of recognized standing. In /later years, his activity was confined to his business. He lived at 3520 E. Fall Creek Parkway. Survivors are his wife, Louise Hupp Pugh; ters, Miss Audrey Pugh of Lake Forest, Ill.; Mrs. Harry B. McKee

Mis.

14 real estate and rental departmenc Jr. of Los Angeles, Cal, and Miss

Madelyn Pugh, a senior at Indiana

18, 19|been manager of the rental depart-| University, and one sister, Mrs, K.

ip Sul

three daugh-|

[$50, was recovered. The Indiana Supreme Court! (handed down no opinion about the! case. ary

BULLETIN

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 22 (U. P.).—Columbia Broadcasting System picked up a radio Singapore broadcast today which said an American flying fortress bombed and sank a 10,000-ton Japanese freighter off the Dutch East Indies.

GRANT FOR WAR SHIPPING

WASHINGTON, Jan. 22 (U, P). |—The House Appropriations Committee today approved a grant of $2,095,138,875 for the Government's] independent offices during the fiscal | year beginning July 1—including | $004,367,534 for the Maritime Commission to construct millions |

| peating itself.

planned to hold Mozhaisk, 63 miles west of Moscow. The advancing Russians found that the Germans had built strong positions for a long

stay and the city was taken only]

after bitter fighting. History Is Repeating?

History seems to be almost reIt was at Borodino, six miles "west of Mozhaisk, that Napoleon won his final victory® in his campaign for Moscow. After that, his way to the capital was unimpeded. The only difference in the modern parellel is that the Germans regarded Mozhaisk as their final victory and proclaimed that Moscow was in their grasp. : The Russians of 1942, unlike their

Fronts

PHILIPPINES: Japanese hurl an entire army—probably 200,000 men—against Gen. Douglas MacArthur's forces on Bataan Peninsula; crisis believed near.

SINGAPORE: Japanese armies reel back in Malaya as British land and air forces take offensive on three fronts.

BURMA: Japs enlist Thailand troops in new thrust to endanger Burma Road supply line to China; 40,000 enemy troops push through jungle to attack Moulmein,

forebears of 1812, turned the tide without losing the capital. The net result is the same. The Germans are retreating along the same main highway from Moscow to Smolensk that Napoleon took in his disastrous rout.

tion, entirely from Russian sources,

| to pursue retreating Nazis westFrom indefinite military informa- |

SOUTH SEAS: Dutch ports in Sumatra and Borneo # bombed: Australia prepares for invasion as Japanese fleet operates off Raboul sector of New Britain.

RUSSIA: Red Army continues

ward after capture of Mozhaisk: attack in Donets Basin and

| of Civilian Defense, now headed by

ASKS 100 MILLION | FOR HOME DEFENSE

F. D. R. Seeks New Cash

Raid Protection.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 22 (U. P.). —President Roosevelt today asked Congress for an emergency appropriation of $100,000,000 for protection of American civilians against air raids antl other war hazards. The appropriation was authorized in legislation which received final Congressional approval Monday. The legislation authorizes expenditure of the funds by the Office

New. York Mayor Fiorello H. La! Guardia. The civilian defense hill was approved after the House reversed itself in demanding that civilian

to build these facilities after hostile |ities began, as was the case in World War 1.

Charges Japs Broke Pledges

Turning to the Far Eastern and southwestern Pacific situation, this official explained that the United States was not entirely unprepared because just such a contingency had been under study for 20 years. In 1921, at the Washington dise armament conference, he recalled, this country made every effiort to stabilize reletions with Japan, and prevent encroachment on China, whose stability is the cornerstone of the Far East. He said that the United States agreed to limit its fleet so that it could not undertake offensive ope

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